Organization

Management:

Bjørn Erik Reinseth – CEO
Mr Bjørn Erik Reinseth has a background from the equity investment business as Partner in Ferd Capital/Ferd Venture and from his own management consultancy business. Mr Reinseth has long operational experience from telecom industry as CEO in listed Sense Communications Int, as Managing Director in Bredbåndsfabrikken and managerial roles in NetCom, ultimately as CMO/EVP Products & Strategy. He has also held a Research Fellowship at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). Mr Reinseth has a BEng Hons from Surrey University and additional education from Norwegian School of Management – BI and Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Annette M. Heyerdahl – Accounting & admin
Annette M. Heyerdahl is trained secretary with considerable leadership and management experience. She has diverse experience across many fields of business and was secretary of Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1982 – 1987, general manager of the business centre EDB Centre in the period 1992 – 2005 and Executive Secretary of Veolia Environment AS from 2006 to 2007.

Styret:

Anne Birgitte Fossum – Styreleder
Anne Birgitte Fossum is a 1984 graduate with a lic. oec. from the School of Management at the University of St. Gallen. As well as being engaged in Foinco AS she holds various board and honorary posts, including; Heidenreich Group, Indico Products AS, Investor Forum, Orkla, Norwegian Property ASA, Bluewater ASA and Chairman of Norwegian Investor Forum. Additionally she has previously worked as Brand Manager for Procter & Gamble in Germany.

Benedicte Fossum – Styremedlem
Benedicte H. Fossum is a veterinarian from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (1989). Benedicte is a director of several listed and unlisted companies, primarily in the life science area. She has been Vice-President of strategic development in the pharmaceutical company Pharmaq AS, a company she helped establish after the buy-out of Alpharma Inc. in 1994. She has worked at the Norwegian Medicines Control between 1990 and 1996, been a researcher at the Institute of Public Health, has represented EFTA in EU bodies and has held office in the Pharmaceutical Trade Association (Legemiddelindustrien (LMI)).

Carl Espen Wollebekk – Styremedlem
Carl Espen Wollebekk started his career in Nordea (Norgeskreditt) and has more than 20 years’ experience in business development, economics and finance, investment, venture capital and M & A at companies such as Tandberg Data, Merkantildata and Norsk Data. He has built up his own consultancy firm (1st Corporate Technologies in Copenhagen) and has been CEO of Orion Securities and later Terra Markets. Today he is CEO of Arkwright Corporate Finance, which specifically focuses on M & A and transaction support within industry segments Oil & Gas, Shipping, Retail and ICT. He also has broad experience from board work in both listed and unlisted companies in the Nordic region.

Stig Eide Sivertsen – Styremedlem
Stig Eide Sivertsen graduated BA (Hons) Econ and M.Sc. from Durham University. He has been CEO of Opplysningen, Executive Vice President of Telenor and Managing Director of Telenor Broadcast – Telenor’s total involvement in broadcasting. He has also previously worked as CFO of PGS ASA and Schibsted ASA. He was Managing Director and one of the founders of the Nettavisen. Stig also has several directorships in both listed and unlisted companies.